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Patrolman helps solve burglary, robbery
By ED RUNYAN
WARREN
Patrolman Nick Carney had the rare opportunity to help solve an aggravated robbery and an aggravated burglary on the same afternoon Monday.
On Tuesday, four men and one juvenile were locked up in Warren jail cells, charged with crimes that could put them in prison for up to 10 years.
An armed robbery downtown that occurred at 2 a.m. Monday was not solved, however, as a man leaving the Horse Shoe Bar on East Market Street reported having his wallet and phone taken.
The police department was alerted to a High Street Northeast robbery by a neighbor about 4:19 p.m. Monday involving two men running with a big-screen television on Iddings Avenue.
Carney spotted a man running through back yards on Charles Avenue and received information from people nearby regarding where the men had gone and what they looked like.
Carney and Sgt. John Burzynski found the two men on the front porch of a house on Linden Avenue, both sweating and out of breath.
The two suspects, later identified as Desmond Coker, 19, of West Park Avenue Southwest and a 14-year-old male also of West Park Avenue, said they had been playing basketball, but there was no basketball in the area, a police report said.
The victim of the robbery said he was sleeping at the time his television and BB gun were taken.
Coker and the juvenile were charged with aggravated burglary. Coker, who remains in the Trumbull County jail, will be arraigned in Warren Municipal Court today. The juvenile was taken to the Trumbull County Juvenile Justice Center.
At 8:35 p.m., Carney was called to a home on Citadel Drive Northeast near Blessed Sacrament Church, where a 19-year-old man reported that two men got out of a car in the church parking lot, assaulted him and took money from his pocket. Two other men stayed in the car, but one of them reportedly threatened to shoot him. No gun was seen.
The Howland Police Department notified Warren police later Monday of a traffic stop at North Road and Youngstown Road involving three young men whose car matched the description of the vehicle used in the robbery.
The victim of the robbery came to the scene and identified Dylan Frank, 18, of Downs Road in Champion and David Limbeck, 20, of Trumbull Avenue in Girard as the men who assaulted and robbed him, and Kyle Ohler, 19, of U.S. Route 422 in Southington as the man who stayed in the car and threatened to shoot him.
Each man remains in the Trumbull County jail, charged with aggravated robbery. Each will be arraigned Wednesday in Warren Municipal Court.